NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



produce equal to 2i tons per 

 acre, 20 tons — worth |^2 50 per 

 too, 50 



Nett profit $oO 



In the fall turned over the sod 

 and rolled — expense, 2 25 per 

 acre, IS 



Barn yard manure, six loads per 

 aero, $:'>, 24 



Spread over and ploughed in as 

 before, without disturhing the 

 sod. 1 per acre, C 



1819. 



Ploughed with a light plough on 

 top of the sod, 1 per acre, 8 



Sowed with 2 1-2 bushels of bar- 

 ley, worth 62 1-2 cents per 

 bushel, 12 50 



Sowing and harrowing; 5n seeds, 

 50 cents, 4 



Harvesting, threshing, &:c. 6 62J- 

 per acre, 53 



Total expense of crop, 127 50 



Crop, 56 bushels to the acre — 



448 bushels — worth 50 cents 



per bushel, 224 



Nett profit, ^96 50 



In fall ploughed 3 inches and 



rolled as before, with same ex- 



pense. 



If 



1820. 



Planted with Indian corn, with 

 the same expense, and in the 

 same way, 100 



Total expense, 118 



Crop, 90 bushels to the acre — 

 720 bushels — worth 44 cents 

 per bushel, 316 80 



Nett profit, $198 80 



1021. 

 Hills split and harrowed down, 12 

 Sowed with barley, 10 



Expense of sowing, 3 



Grass seed, 8 



Expense of harvesting, thresh- 

 ing, Sic. 53 



Total expense of crop 

 Crop, 60 bushels per acre — 180 

 bushels — worth 50 cents per 



86 



bushel. 



Nett profit, 



240 



154 



Total amount of profit for eight 



years' culture. 

 Deduct the amount of interest on 



8 acres, worth *\100 per acre, 



for 8 years, which is 



gl478 30 



448 



Which leaves a clear profit for 



eight years' culture, of $1030 30 



During the past summer, 1821, this enter- 

 prising farmer has had the following produce 

 from the culture of 80 acres, which had been 

 previously tilled upon the foregoing plan, viz : 



3 acres of oats, 60 bushels per acre, 180 

 8 do Indian corn, 112 do 896 



10 do do 90 do 900 



4 do Spring wheat 34 do 136 

 6 do bailey, 60 do 360 



31 acres produced total amount of bushels, 2472 



47 acres produced total number of tons, 153 



1 acre kitchen garden, which produced a great 

 variety of vegetables, and 400 chickens. 



The reader will naturally wish to know the 

 nature of the soil which, with a shallow 

 ploughing and light manuring, yields such hea- 

 vy crops — an analysis of its general character 

 gives the following results : — 



Water, 9,5 



Animal and vegetable matter 12,5 

 Clay, 17,5 



Siliceous sand, 54 



Carbonate of lime, 3 



Soluble salt", 1 



Oxide of iron, 1 



98,5 

 Loss, 1,5 



Permit me now to close this long letter by a 

 a few general remarks: The analysis of the 

 soil of Mr Stimson's farm leaves no necessity 

 for further observation on that head ; what is 

 chiefly worthy of notice is, that he never has re- 

 course to naked/fW/o-Lis; but keeps his lands al- 

 most constantly covered with crops. His gen- 

 eral system is now to sow clover and timothy; 

 the first disappears after the second year, and 

 instead of going on as we do in Maryland, to 

 cut, cut, cut, year after year, for eight or ten 

 years, as long as we can get a ton of hay, and 

 sometimes less per acre ; he scarcely ever 

 mows his land more than three, and never more 

 than four years ; and when it does not give him 

 at least 2 1-2 tons per acre, he turns in his cat- 

 tle, pastures it down, then turns over the sod 3 

 inches deep — rolls it to make the furrows lie 

 close, so as to promote rapid decomposition of 

 the vegetable matter — spreads his manure five 

 ox (not less than ten Maryland) loads to the 

 acre, and as soon as possible alter the ploughing 

 and spreading the manure, he sows his grain. 

 It is thus, says he, by never letting my land get 

 to low, that I keep up its strength and fertility. 



His plows resemble, very nearly, the Scotch 

 plow, being an improvement of his own sugges- 

 tion on that implement. I have spoken to him 

 to send one to Baltimore, which you may exhi- 

 bit at your next Cattle Show. There is in its 

 form something more of the wedge principle, ap- 

 parently, than is usual, which makes it of easi- 

 er draft ; and light as the land may be, there 

 must be a peculiar lightness of draft, iu a plough 

 which requires but one horse to turn ovsr tim- 

 othy sward, 



Galway is 37 miles from tide water at Alba- 

 ny, to which place he formerly wagoned his 

 produce ; the cost of transportation is diminish- 

 ed one half by means of the canal, which at Al- 

 exandis bridge, is distant 15 miles from Galway. 

 Mr Stimson is a native of Massachusetts, came 

 to Calway with no capital, but a sound under- 

 standing and a resolute heart. He has now two 

 stores, keeps a tavern, Sic. and has grown rich 

 by close aJherence to the Spanish proverb — 



" Go not to your doctor for every ail ; nor to 

 your lawyer for every quarrel ; nor to your bot- 

 tle for every thirst!" Farming has hitherto 

 been to him an amusement, ralher than a pri- 

 mary object. He begins now to see how much 

 good may be done by the influence of a good 

 example ; and having mriched his laml, he in- 

 tends to stock it with domestic animals of the 

 best breeds, and to beautify it with fruit and or- 

 namental trees, &c. I must close this crude 

 sketch with a single remark, that all who visit 

 this premium farni, and note the conversation 

 and habits of its owner, will be forcibly im- 

 pressed with the truth of the adage — " the yboj 

 of the owner is the best manure for his land." 

 1 intended to have said something of the com- 

 ponent pans and medicinal qualities of these 

 iiimous waters, but the hell rings, and that I 

 may not be singular, and yet more, that 1 may 

 pass muster with my wile, who reviews me 

 most critically, I must go " dress for dinner," as 

 the phrase is here, where you must know peo- 

 ple dress at least three times a day — So, adieu 

 for the present. . 



P S. I must add that as to labourers, Mr 

 Stimson's regular number does not exceed six 

 — yet he had, when we were there, thirty 

 hands cutting grain, grass, &-,c. How eminent 

 the advantage when you can thus hire labour- 

 ers to meet, exactly, the demand on your farms, 

 and having accomplished your purpose, dis- 

 charge them, and free yourself from further 

 expense. 



TEA PLANTS. 



Mr George Wallace, who lives at Braddock's 

 Field, (Penn.) writes to the American Farmer, 

 that he has raised, during the present season, a 

 considerable quantity of the Hyson Tea plants. 

 We have fre.qjjently (says the editor of the Med- 

 ical Intelligencer) drank tea made from a plant 

 which goes by that name and grows wild on the 

 upper borders of the Kennebec river. It re- 

 sembles in flavour the best souchong, and we 

 wonder it is not more generally known and used. 



From the American Economist. 



SAVE YOUR OLD PIPES ! 

 Mr Editor, — A few days ago I was some dis- 

 tance from home in company with my father. 

 After high feeding and a hard day's ride, toy 

 father's horse was taken with the cholic. He 

 was first discovered to be sick a little while after 

 midnight, and after day-light the next morning 

 he appeared remarkably restless, and swelled 

 badly in his body. We drenched him with every 

 medicine we thought to be good, without per- 

 ceiving any material difference. About 8 o'clock 

 a stranger came riding by, and I asked him if he 

 could give us any directions how to cure the 

 horse. He immediately alighted, and after m.- " 

 amining the horse, he directed me to gather up 

 three or four old pipes and their stems, pound 

 them on a smooth rock, and put them in a pot 

 with three pints of water — boil it down to about 

 three half pints, let it cool, then drench him 

 with it. I did so, and the creature immediately 

 became easy. By 10 or 1 1 o'clock the swelling 

 had gone away, and the horse appeared to be 

 as easy as ever. The gentleman who prescribed 

 this cure, told me he had never known it fail in 

 a case of the kind. €f. 



